You start on something small - and you move up!

[Ixion]

Some things are best not talked about. And that had nothing to do with the fact that it was a GSX250. Could have been any bike.

[Coyote]

Yeah, my friends GSX is doing him well. Ramius was just unlucky with his

Shit, looking at Ramius' threads on his GSX. They were dated November 2004. I forget how much time I've wasted on this site

[grantman]

Well done

We have another rider for 2006 Cold Kiwi !!!!!!!!!

Take care on the road
its not like a playstation game


cheers
Grantman

[Wolf]

Would be pretty cool to be able to ride somewhere, have a trail ride and then ride home without all the hassle of a trailer (those of us that dont have a van or UTErus).

Yeah. Was never in the financial bracket to have a car and trailer or a ute and wasn't licensed to drive, anyhoo. Relying on the bike to ride back again never curbed our enthusiasm off road, either, but then we were young, dumb and full of... something - shit between the ears, I suspect.

A whole bunch of us spent a day down on the river bank thrashing the shit out of it in speed trials and the distance between the "finish line" and the river was pretty short (and only someone who wanted to lose would slow before the finish line) so we were dicing with the real possibility of dropping my only mode of transport, smoking hot, into the cooling waters of the Mighty Waikato. Didn't though. Reckon the engine would've shattered like a crystal vase if it'd plunged into the river.

Another day, returning from a bit of a blat down by the river bank I was getting too cocky and dropped the bike, ripped the muffler away from the exhaust pipe so I had to part with some of my limited cash and buy a muffler bandage to avoid getting ticketed riding 'round town (and shattering my own eardrums every time I rode in a built-up area).

Great fun though - carried all sorts of shit on it, took it bloody-near anywhere: Tokoroa, up the road up Mt Te Aroha (following my brother who was on my old Yamaha RX125 commuter), around the "Times Track" (a pile of earth near the Times printery on Avalon Drive that the local lads used for trail bike riding) and along the river bank between Hamilton Gardens and Memorial Park a few times before they ruined most of it by putting concrete paths in.

And yea - ya do get used to the riding style, sports bike feels weird at the moment

I loved the way it handled and cornered, and the riding posture. When I took the F650GS Dakar for a spin my body said "oh, yes, this is what I've missed!"

I've ridden a lot of old tourers - mainly CBs and GTs, a couple of crotch rockets, and a few cruisers and can say that the tourers and the Enduros are the ones I can ride for hours without undue fatigue and discomfort. I'll take the upright posture of a tourer or a road-trail over a sprots boik or a cruiser any day.

Another advantage of a road-trail of decent size is that you can go on adventure rides - mix of on and off road riding. Oscar and Motu seem to be the ones with the knowledge of them. Oscar put a thread on here a while back with links to some fan-damn-tastic pics of his rides - almost enough to make me say "fuck it, the boys are over 2 years old, they can bloody walk" and sell the cage to buy a decent Road-trail bike...

Every time I go down South through the logging areas I wish I was on a road-trail so I could ride off onto some of the interesting looking tracks that run near or alongside the roads to make the journey less boring (probably get lost or end up heading in the wrong direction but it would alleviate the boredom of SH1)

[Oscar]

Y'all want one o' these things...
A 2006 KTM 625SXC...veeeery nice.

That's Motu in the background.

[Wolf]

Y'all want one o' these things...
A 2006 KTM 625SXC...veeeery nice.

Veeeery nice, indeed.

I'm waiting for the LTSA to take up my kind offer to integrate a horsepower-based learner licence restriction system into their current vehicle licencing system for the trifling sum of a brand new road trail bike.

Just don't tell them I intend to cheat and copy-paste a lot of it from the Aussie's website, I don't want to have to work so long I can't get out and ride...

[Oscar]

Veeeery nice, indeed.

I'm waiting for the LTSA to take up my kind offer to integrate a horsepower-based learner licence restriction system into their current vehicle licencing system for the trifling sum of a brand new road trail bike.

Just don't tell them I intend to cheat and copy-paste a lot of it from the Aussie's website, I don't want to have to work so long I can't get out and ride...

It'd be a sight easier to get some 250EXC stickers and bung them on the 625.

[Wolf]

It'd be a sight easier to get some 250EXC stickers and bung them on the 625.

I've got a full licence, 'tis the bike I lack. I figure the law needs a 21st Century revamp that's going to involve the LTSA's registration database to get it to work and I figure I could turn that to my advantage if I could just convince them it needs doing and that my "price" is reasonable...

[Oscar]

I've got a full licence, 'tis the bike I lack. I figure the law needs a 21st Century revamp that's going to involve the LTSA's registration database to get it to work and I figure I could turn that to my advantage if I could just convince them it needs doing and that my "price" is reasonable...

Ahh, I see.
Do you really wanna deal with that wierdo Andy ("Speed is the Root of Evil") Knackstead, though?

[Wolf]

Ahh, I see.
Do you really wanna deal with that wierdo Andy ("Speed is the Root of Evil") Knackstead, though?

I've been sans bike for well over a year, I'm so fucking stir crazy I'd deal with Genghis Khan and Timothy McVeigh if they'd promise to give me a motorbike.

Closest I've come to finding an engine for my GSX250 is a whole bike down in Christchurch which means the expense of freighting it up on top of the purchase price - a bit out of my financial league at the mo'. Unless I can get some extra work outside of my regular job or find something to sell.